what's the point in making rules that you're not going to enforce?

Question

why make so many things a sin if you're not even going to punish people for doing them?

Answer 1

if you dont repent, you will go to hell...

Answer 2

Or why have a book filled with a bunch of rules & guidelines just to say later that aside from a few major details in the first half of the book, only the second half of the book is really relevant to today's world?

If it was such an important guide book for life don't you think that the whole book would be relevant for all time? Have you ever read any other book based on events in history where people say "Oh you can just ignore the first half...."

Answer 3

Who "makes things a sin"?

The ultimate law-giver is God himself. He gave Moses the ten commandments. Before that, there were no laws so nobody sinned. So the Old Testament had it.

And each commandment covered a lot of related sins. Like "Thou shall not steal" covers everything that doesn't even look like stealing. Like bringing home office stationery for use at home.

Jewish Law had a lot of punishments. If you read the Old Testament you can see what these punishments were. For a woman caught in adultery -- having sex with someone not her husband -- the punishment was stoning.

The present world we live in has gone chaotic. Everything is turned upside down and there seem to be no sins, and your truth is different from my truth so that you wonder (like Pilate) what is truth?

For thousands of years, homosexuality is a sin in most societies, Christian or pagan. Everyone could see that it is weird to have a man in love with another man. It is not normal or natural. Now, it is so widely accepted that you can get jailed for expressing just what I have expressed. How about the gay that wrote to Yahoo Answers asking where he can learn to be straight. Now, even that request will mark him as obnoxious to other gays.

So the law is now confused. If homosexuality is now okay by law, and divorce and remarriage, and also abortion (or the murder of the unborn), just when will everything else we forbid at the present moment become okay? De-legalised?

Someday, you can just murder anybody, and Virginia Tech is just one guy exerting his rights to kill anybody. So why are you all horrified? There used to be a time when people are horrified to find a dead baby in a dustbin.

[Actually, even now, most people are horrified to find a dead baby in a dustbin. They just never got the chance to see the dead babies in the dustbins at the abortion clinics.]

Nowadays girls go to abortion clinics to abort babies because it is a messy and dangerous thing to do it themselves. So the law provides protection by doing it for them. Will a day come when the Virginia Tech killer could have gone to get a legal hit man to kill off all his enemies? After all, it is messy and dangerous for him to do it himself!

You are shocked by this idea, but remember that once upon a time, people would be absolutely shocked by the present day abortions, and gay rights, and serial divorces, and free recreational sex out of marriage. And now these are okay. Like you say, nobody is going to punish them for these sins.

And hey! Who are you addressing when you asked "why make so many things a sin?" Did you think that mankind and not God made these things a sin? Along with throwing out all those laws and all those sins, mankind has thrown out God too. And He will do things soon to show He is around.

Another Katrina, another big tsunami, or earthquake, or fire from heaven. Like he did at Sodom and Gomorrah. If mankind does not punish, God will. They are His rules. And disobeying his rules are called sins.

Answer 4

He will punish us for them. And He has also human partners to enforce the punishment. But He saves us from hell if we ask. His rules are to protect us while HERE. : )

Answer 5

We didn't make the rules and we don't carry out the punishments. That's why it's called serving a "higher power."

Answer 6

you are correct. We let God judge--besides the Bible sets the guidelines--not the people--when people interfere--God becomes distorted
BTW if everyone lived a good clean moral life there would be no broken rules(sin).

Answer 7

Don't you get it ?

Rule is intended for Everyone but ME

BTW, I also grant exception for anyone as I wish

Cheers

Answer 8

who says there is no punishment?
Vengence is mine said the Lord
and believe you me, there is punishment!
I've gotten away with nothing I can tell ya.

Answer 9

Like putting our children to death for cursing us.

Answer 10

HAHAHA

Christianity was hijacked by Rabbi Saul of Tarsus.

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